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Something has to change.

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[-] Swim@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is pretty damn clean by todays standards

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, most of that is just driftwood. And that's been around forever.

[-] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Best I can offer is hopelessness and endless chaos for capital.

[-] Alchemy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Those beautiful tropical beaches, especially in poor areas, are covered in litter. Mostly plastic food wrap, and it's so endless.

[-] Taco2112@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Be the change. It’s not your trash or your fault but what’s stopping you from cleaning it? I pick up trash that’s not mine every day when I take my dog for a walk. Think globally, act locally.

[-] Alchemy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We need a team for this beach, and/or drag tools to pull behind an atv. It would be near impossible to do this by hand. This is the southern end of the island where trash is coming from global sources. On the northern end where we stay, we dive and cut line from the reefs and remove bags of waste.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

What I don't get is that this is somewhat easy to clean up using a rock picker attachment on a skidsteer.

Yeah this one is coarse but a bit of chicken wire or fined sized mesh around it would work like a charm. That beach would be clean within a day.

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[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not just our home, but our only possible home. Mars is the best alternative, and it would take hundreds of thousands of years to terraform.

We live on Earth or we die.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Alchemy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for sharing that. I did notice coca-cola is a sponsor. They’re one of the largest plastic polluters in the world and a massive contributor to our current situation. Do you think that’s because they’re trying to make change, or trying to whitewash their responsibility?

[-] niartenyaw@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

my take is white-washing. if they actually wanted to make a change, they could stop selling plastic bottles at any time.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly, any massive corporation doing anything charitable is nearly always for the PR. If a company like Coca-Cola suddenly switched to all glass, even if it cost them profits, that would be incredible. If anyone running these corporations really cared about helping they would do more drastic things like that.

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I mostly agree with the other commenter. They ideally would revert to glass bottles.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not counting the wood, I hauled more trash than that off a 26-mile kayak trip last weekend. And wood burns.

Go for it OP! Set an example.

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